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  1. Re:The logic behind why your car is safe on Car RFID Security System Cracked · · Score: 1

    Your engine, transmission, water pump, brake calipers, body panels... your car is worth a ton when it's in pieces. Good luck hunting them all down.

  2. Re:Disclaimer: I am Not an Electrical Engineer on LiveJournal Servers Go Down · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the expense of each server having less uptime is far, far less than the risk of the whole thing falling apart at once. Everything they have is distributed and redundant...

  3. Re:It's not just the regional bells on Regional Bells Blocking Broadband Competition · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fire companies were originally private enterprises... and for many of them, they'd only fight fires at insured homes. Private companies do contract to municipalities. More often than just fire services though, are private ambulance services. These can be found virtually anywhere. American Medical Response is HUGE, and they answer 911 calls.

  4. Re:Perl Script on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... no, it doesn't work.. It gets to 03:14:07, and just sticks there. the last four entries are 02:14:07. Just tested it on my powerbook... same thing. *shrug* like it'll last that long.

  5. Re:too complicated on Inside the Shadow Internet · · Score: 1

    Terabytes of data distributed via freenet with a primary goal of speed? In the situation of these people, that's way to inefficient. Custom security and low numbers of users are the way to go, and that's just how it's done.

  6. Re:Not all of them are lows on Top 20 Gaming Lows of 2004 · · Score: 1

    I would say the attempt at legislation and kids trying to blame games was the low part. I doubt they're calling the failure of legislation a low...

  7. Re:Is that really of significance? on Inside TechTV/G4 · · Score: 1

    Couldn't stand Chris from day one. The guy sounds like an airhead on the air... poor personality and poor display of technical knowledge. Wrong man entirely for what their audience was when the first brought him on. I could have cried...

  8. Re:Ken -- The Cyborg! on Ken Jennings Gets a New Challenge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course it's a hit on the French. How many links do you have to have to that for it to be the top? We're talking about a country that should just remove the color from it's flag so it's already white. Saves them the trouble of ever having to raise something else!

  9. Re:What are these "manuals" of which you speak? on When Do You Read the Instructions? · · Score: 1

    As I say from my 4 month old powerbook: bullshit. OS X definitely has some stuff that us unix geeks would love to see written down!

  10. Re:Privacy after death? on Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords · · Score: 1

    Actually, as far as I'm aware legal protection for medical records after death all but disappears.

  11. Re:Is this something you'd really want? on Dead? Hope You Left Someone Your Passwords · · Score: 1
    My girlfriend doesn't have any issues with sex, but her grandmother would have a heart attack with the idea that "her little girl" would think of sex before marriage. I think my girlfriend has every right to have her grandmother not know the details of our relationship.

    This is the core theory behind a will....defining your wishes after you've passed. If you haven't noted people retreiving your e-mail, then you probablky didn't consider it and might now want it to happen.

    Oooh, if her grandmother knew...

  12. Re:Mmm. No. on 6-Month Sentence for NASA Cracker · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I work for a fire department. I'd kill for a day when spectators were in my way and refused to move. After all, if you park in front of a fire hydrant, policy's to run the hose THROUGH your car. In a fire lane? We'll use your car as support for the ladder truck's rigging. Don't think it hasn't happened before.

  13. Re:Well, duh... on What Interests High-School Students? · · Score: 1

    Dunno... breasts applied to the majority of students at my high school. Then again, my high school had such a thriving lesbian culture that most women I exhibited an interest in introduced me to their girlfriend. College has been less mean to me...

  14. Re:It's a joke! on Using GPS to Track Teens · · Score: 1

    So what really happens is the cell phone blasts out of the window reporting 220MPH after the crash, and comes to rest against a small tree or fire hydrant, resulting in an instant stop in almost any situation - the kinetic energy of a cell phone at that speed would be very painful, but it would be stopped by most road obstructions.

  15. Re:It's a joke! on Using GPS to Track Teens · · Score: 1

    And if I were in one of those vehicles? In one of those houses? This is akin to trying to stop somebody with an assault weapon that has seized up. If he manages to unjam the thing, hell's going to be hosting you for a long visit. Let me remind you, he was operating a TANK...

  16. Re:or the easiest solution on Anti-Spyware Products Don't Live Up to Promises · · Score: 1

    Pffft... fdisk

  17. Re:Hmmm on MPAA Sues Movie-Swappers · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'd assume all do. My purpose was to verify that they're being sent for files that are distributed via BitTorrent (the notices include details such as the network used to share the file).

  18. Re:Hmmm on MPAA Sues Movie-Swappers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, they are tracking BiTorrent. My campus has recieved several take down notices this year from external organizations.

  19. Re:Mirror of Mirror slowing down already - my turn on A Private Home For Retired Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    I take offense to that. load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Bandwidth: Approx 1Mbit. About 10% of my capacity.

  20. Mirror Slashdotted... My Turn To Mirror on A Private Home For Retired Supercomputers · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. Re:Internet Connection Shutdowns on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    Copyright violation requests from outside organizations.

  22. Re:Death to BT on BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of Traffic · · Score: 1

    Well, a lot of the internet connection shutoff postings I get have been for content shared via BitTorrent (work & study at a university)

  23. Re:Felony conviction? on Siblings Guilty of Spam Felony, Partner Acquitted · · Score: 1

    I agree it's a felony... no doubt in my mind... but I hope the felony was the fraud and not the spam itself. Illegal spam's fine, and even with killer fines... but not as a felony. I'm just being particular about the law...

  24. Felony conviction? on Siblings Guilty of Spam Felony, Partner Acquitted · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I hope that the law they were convicted under had something to do with fraud written in it besides just sending untracable e-mail. Among all the other dumb things our country is doing, we're charging everything as a felony, no matter what the crime or reality behind it.

    The credit card orders make this definitely a fraud case, but if that same punishment was applicable without the fraud... I can't lookup the law as the article doesn't mention it, but I'm very afraid.

  25. Re:Porting isn't that easy on Why Apple Should Port Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    No. RTFM. (and... I have to expand on it to say "The Fucking Manual" and make the connection between that and porn becuase everybody's just gonna skip the joke below the surface. But now it's explained and not funny. *sigh*)